Thursday, July 24, 2008

US-CERT: DNS Cache Poisoning Public Exploit Code Available

US-CERT is aware of publicly available exploit code for a cache poisoning vulnerability in common DNS implementations. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a nameserver's clients to contact the incorrect, and possibly malicious hosts for particular services. As a result, web traffic, email and other important network data could be redirected to systems under the attacker's control.